We were on our way to visit family, and decided to stop in Lodi for a bite to eat.
The area that we found is so super cute during the holiday season! Holiday music is playing in the streets, there are horse drawn carriages, and the center of town is just a lovely place to walk around and shop.
We decided to try Moo Moo's burger barn, since the Italian restaurant across the street, for some reason wasn't open.
Moo Moo's Is a small burger joint, and I'm just gonna put this out there, don't waste your time or money checking this place out.
There's a sign that says wait to be seated, and we stood there for over five minutes waiting for someone to acknowledge us, let alone seat us. The people that walked in after us waited just as long, if not longer. Keep in mind, the restaurant was not busy. When we were finally acknowledged, we were told to just take a seat wherever we wanted. What's the purpose of the sign then?!
The same person that finally acknowledged us, also turned out to be our waiter and came over and dropped off menus. He popped back around literally two minutes later, asking us if we were ready to order. We asked for a few more moments, and he just walked away. This happened Three times. Yes, three times.
We opted to get the barbecue moo with onion rings, and the mushroom moo with fries.
I had asked for some ketchup or sauce for the fries and onion rings when the meal was brought to the table. The guy literally said to me you want ketchup for your fries? It was just such a weird exchange.
While we were waiting, the strawberry shake that we were going to share, was dropped off at the table. It was dropped off in the container that it was clearly made in. No glasses, nothing. Just the container, a spoon and a straw it tasted like Strawberry quick from back in the day that had been watered down so it essentially was just a pink drink. It was gross. We were limited to strawberry, since we were told all other flavors were "out".
I'm just gonna cut to the chase, at this point the food was dropped off, and I'm perplexed how this restaurant stays in business. Both the onion rings, and the fries not only were overcooked, but they were bland, and had no seasoning. None. The fries were so overcooked that it just tasted like fried sticks, and the onion rings , well, that's just a mystery to me because how do you have bland onion rings?!
The barbecue moo was inedible. I don't know where they get their patties from or if they make them in the house, but I would've taken bland meat over whenever this was that they created a burger with. The bacon on it is yet another mystery. How does bacon not have any flavor, and, it was overcooked as well. How does the cook not notice any of these things??
The mushroom burger I had asked that instead of raw onions, that the onions be sautéed. They were barely cooked through. The best thing on this burger were the mushrooms.
The waiter never came to check on us, and ask about the food, and he pretty much disappeared after the food was dropped off at the table. Had he come over, then, perhaps a meal would've been corrected. Maybe not.
When he finally did show up, we needed to get going because we had a lengthy drive ahead of us, and we noticed that we had been charged for the ketchup, as well as the ranch dressing that was already part of the meal. We were never told that we were going to be charged extra for what is usually a normal accompany to a meal.
In retrospect, I'm glad that I did not ask for cutlery, because we probably would've been charged for that as well.
Cute town during the holidays, not a great place to stop for a meal. As a sidenote, the shake in the two burgers, came to $50. Shame on anyone for charging this much money for bad food and bad customer service. read more